Fabian Dawson
Editor-in-Chief | Writer | Filmmaker | Media Expert
A multiple-award winning journalist, Fabian Dawson is an internationally acclaimed author, filmmaker and media expert. His work over the last three decades spans the globe and he also serves as a consultant/strategic advisor to a variety of international media houses and companies. Dawson was named the 2019 recipient of the Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award at Jack Webster Awards, which is one of the most prestigious journalism accolades in Canada. Until August of 2016, Dawson, 58, was the deputy editor-in-chief of The Province newspaper in Vancouver, which is part of the Postmedia group, Canada’s largest media organization.
Born and raised in Malaysia, Dawson is of Indian origin. He migrated to Vancouver in 1988. He has two children. He serves as the editorial advisor to the Vancouver-based South Asian Post, Asian Pacific Post and Filipino Post newspapers as well as several publications in Korea, Hong Kong, Malaysia, India, Singapore, Philippines and England and the Market One Media Group. Dawson is a regular on TV and radio talk shows and is a guest lecturer at various schools of journalism. His work, particularly in India, has led to the creation of four documentary films and a made-for-TV movie. He has been cited for excellence in journalism multiple times since 2002 by the Jack Webster Foundation while many of the stories he has directed have won national and international journalism awards. In 2004, The National Newspaper Awards Board of Governors named Dawson as the recipient of 2004 Unsung Hero of Canadian journalism.
In July 2006, an investigative team led by Dawson won the prestigious Daniel Pearl Award in New York for outstanding story about South Asia. The team also took the Rolls Royce Commonwealth Award in London, the Jack Webster Award for Excellence in Journalism in Canada, while receiving citations of merit from the Canadian Association of Journalists, the Society of Newspaper Design and the Canadian National Newspaper Awards Committee. He is also a recipient of the Queen’s Jubilee Medal, cited as among the top 100 influential South Asians in Vancouver by the Vancouver Sun and was recently honoured by the Vancouver-based Darpan Magazine and the Chetna Association of Canada for his work within the South Asian community.
